Best badass female anime characters

Android 18 – Dragon Ball wins 62% of her duels and tops the Girl Power ranking ahead of Maki – Jujutsu Kaisen.

The podium reveals a tight contest at the top, where Android 18 edges out Maki by just 13 ELO points. But the sharpest drop in the ranking comes between second and third place: 39 points separate Maki from Erza Scarlet – Fairy Tail, the widest gap in the top tier. Erza herself commands 1318 ELO and wins 62% of her duels over 923 matchups, matching Android 18's win rate despite trailing in overall score. Mikasa – Attack on Titan and Annie Leonhart – Attack on Titan sit close together at fourth and fifth with 1310 and 1309 ELO, separated by a single point after 1066 and 1088 duels respectively. At the bottom, Yuno Gasai – Future Diary ranks 27th with 1055 ELO and a 39% win rate, suggesting that anime fans reserve their votes for fighters who embody strength without losing control or sanity.

This ranking draws on 60460 duels cast by 688 players across 27 contenders. The figures reflect the state of the vote as of 10 October 2026. To shift the balance or confirm the current order, cast your own duels on the platform and see which characters rise when the community weighs in.

Updated on October 10, 2026

How this ranking is computed

Every duel won lifts a contender and every loss drops them, by an amount that depends on the opponent's strength: beating the leader is worth more than beating the last. It is an ELO, the same principle as in chess. Duels are not drawn at random — an adaptive entropy sort puts the least predictable match-ups first, which settles the ranking far faster than a full round robin. A worldwide ranking is only published past 30 completed plays. Known limit: a contender who has faced few opponents keeps an approximate score, and the bottom of the table moves more than the podium.

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